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Get the job as a trained Medical Receptionist

The Medical Receptionist Diploma offers all the skills you need to work in an office environment as a professional receptionist. This means you can be confident in applying for a rewarding and interesting role as a Medical Receptionist. What’s more, with this diploma, you’ll have demonstrated to potential employers your dedication and determination to succeed in this crucial role.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 140 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date
Flexible
Study Type
In centre, online, or a combination
Training Type
Diploma
Duration
140 hours or 6 weeks full-time study

About This Diploma

This means you can be confident in applying for a rewarding and interesting role as a Medical Receptionist. What’s more, with this diploma, you’ll have demonstrated to potential employers your dedication and determination to succeed in this crucial role.

Our Medical Receptionist Diploma offers the opportunity to gain high level professional skills that will help you gain work as a Receptionist or Administrator within a medical environment. You’ll gain practical and professional administrative skills such as Microsoft Word, Outlook and Business Communications. You’ll also cover subjects specifically aimed for those working within a medical environment such as Medical Terminology and Medical Word Processing. Once you’ve completed your studies you’ll gain a recognisable Pitman Training diploma, and if desired, you can go on to undertake your AMSPAR Level 2 Award or Level 3 Certificate in Medical Terminology*.

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Aims and Objectives

The Medical Receptionist Diploma is an excellent choice if you’re looking to work as a Medical Receptionist, Medical Administrator or Medical Secretary.

Courses Included

Communication Courses

Effective Business Communication

This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills, which is often top of the list of qualities demanded by…

Medical Secretary Courses & Diplomas

Medical Terminology

This course helps you get under the skin of commonly used medical terminology across a wide range of disciplines. You’ll also have the opportunity to…

Medical Secretary Courses & Diplomas

Medical Word Processing

Medical offices require a lot of admin. Get to grips with the finer workings of Word and you can go on and gain Pitman Training…

Microsoft Office Courses

Outlook

This flexible study Outlook course takes you through everything you need to use this popular email system as a work tool, from navigation and views…

General Office Skills Courses

Professional Receptionist Essentials

The Professional Receptionist Essentials course has been designed to give people the chance of becoming the best receptionist they can be.

Touch Typing Courses

Typaz

In just 25 hours speeds of 20-40+ words per minute are perfectly achievable, even if you have little prior experience. Comprising 10 lessons, you’ll also…

Touch Typing Courses

Typaz Speed

With our typaz speed course we’ll increase your work-rate and help you learn to touch-type at up to 40-60 words a minute; what a difference…

Microsoft Office Courses

Word

Our Microsoft Word course is designed to provide you with the essential skills you will need to be proficient in Word, in a work environment,…

General Office Skills Courses

Professional Receptionist Seminar

This is a one-day seminar that takes an in-depth look at the vital role of the receptionist and the important contribution they make to the…

Elective Courses

In addition to the core courses, you also choose one additional elective course. Below is a list of recommended courses but there is a wider list available. Please speak to a Course Advisor for full details of how best to tailor this Diploma to your requirements.

Touch Typing Courses

Audio Transcription Level 1

Audio Transcription is a valuable skill, with applications in many industry sectors. This audio typing course will teach you how to operate audio transcribing equipment…

Microsoft Office

Excel

Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. In Part 1, you will learn how to use the core features of Excel, such as…

Personal Development Courses

Health and Safety Essentials

This is a flexible study course, so you’ll have the freedom to study whenever suits you. The interactive e-learning system makes this an extremely accessible…

Shorthand & Speedwriting Courses

SpeedWriting

Our SpeedWriting course is a new way to learn the BakerWrite™ SpeedWriting system in just six hours. It will help you accurately record the spoken…

Secretarial Courses

Telephone Techniques – Seminar

This one-day seminar is perfect for anyone who uses the telephone regularly as an important part of their role and needs to develop their telephone…

Pre-Requisites

There are no pre-requisites required.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

  • Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
  • You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

What we can help with:

  • Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
  • Tailored personnel letters
  • Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).

Funding & Grants:

There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

Once you’ve gained your Medical Receptionist certification, why not look to progress to a Medical Secretary or Medical Administrator role? We offer great training courses for these types of roles.

What’s the Difference?

We offer a range of training packages in a range of subject areas and can offer blended learning opportunities to best meet your needs.

Our courses are practical in nature and focus on a single subject and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.

Diplomas are designed to give you a complete skillset mapped to a specific career path and contain a number of core and elective courses.